8. First Base

Despite being so overflowing with talent, first base includes baseball's consensus No. 1 overall fantasy selection in Albert Pujols. After that, 17 other players would be suitable to start this year as your fantasy first baseman.

Player One is Adrian Gonzalez, being picked from around 25th overall to 35th overall this year. Player Two is Derrek Lee, being picked from 90th to 100th this year. That's right—I'd rather have Player Two's statistics as well!

6. Starting Pitching

Starting pitching has relatively few super elite options this year (Tim Lincecum, Roy Halladay, Zack Greinke, Felix Hernandez, CC Sabathia), yet it has a surplus of very good pitchers with decent upside.

This makes it a reasonably deep position, with tons of low-risk, high-reward players like David Price (should be about the 50th starter off the board) or Rick Porcello (70th or so).

Selecting a good dependable starter fairly early, such as Dan Haren, is probably a good idea, but after that feel free to wait a while for bargain bin gems to be available.

5. Relief Pitching

It's always hard to gauge position scarcity when considering pitching, as it really just depends on whether there are many elite options or a quick and steep drop-off after the first few. The talent level stays the same.

But this year, relief pitching is scarcer than normal given only a select few are mortal locks for 40 saves. Joe Nathan is perhaps the best closer there is this year, with Mariano Rivera not far behind.

Though after that, can you count on K-Rod or Francisco Cordero's subpar underlying statistics? Jonathan Papelbon's arm and shoulder health are drawing much suspicion with regard to injury, and Brian Fuentes had a terrible 3.93 ERA last year.

Many experts note every year that it doesn't pay to spend heavily in the draft for saves, and this is probably extra prevalent this year, as many closer jobs should be available for minority members (think David Aardsma, Ryan Franklin, and Andrew Bailey last year).

4. Third Base

Traditionally a fairly deep position, it has taken a hit in recent years as more defensive statistics have come into play, prompting teams to move their error machines over to the other side of the diamonds.

As in every season in recent memory, Alex Rodriguez, fully recovered from steroid accusations and injury, has taken center stage.

After him, though, do you really want to risk a continued power outage from David Wright, or the always-present risks that come from breaking strikeout records (yes, you Mark Reynolds!)?

Evan Longoria, Pablo Sandoval, and Ryan Zimmerman are certainly still brimming with more potential, enough to heat the hot corner up again. This season the cutoff before mediocrity seems to be Aramis Ramirez, who should bounce back from surgery nicely.

3. Second Base

Second Base does have plenty of options, but the position does certainly taper off once Aaron Hill is selected.

Chase Utley had another great campaign last year and is being selected in the first round of most drafts this year. He owes this elite status, however, to his playing second base, as he puts up similar stats to Justin Morneau, a player typically drafted in the fifth round this year.